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Quake Advice: Keep Calm and Buy a Lemur

California has lessons aplenty to share with the seismic neophytes of the East Coast

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Merrill Markoe

August 27, 2011

Congratulations, all you late adopters on the East Coast, on finally joining the tectonic plate club! Did you like the part where every car alarm on the block went off at the same time? You'll also love the stream of earthquake predictions by seismologists and psychics that will start surfacing every few weeks from now until the end of time (or, at least, until the next big one hits).

While the memory is fresh (and before a hurricane makes you forget that the whole earthquake thing even happened), I thought I'd weigh in...